USS Saury

USS Saury underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard
History
United States
Builder	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1]
Laid down	28 June 1937[1]
Launched	20 August 1938[1]
Commissioned	3 April 1939[1]
Decommissioned	22 June 1946[1]
Stricken	19 July 1946[1]
Fate	Sold for scrap 19 May 1947[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Sargo-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine[2]
Displacement	1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced[3] 2,350 long tons (2,390 t) submerged[3]
Length	310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)[3]
Beam	26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)[3]
Draft	16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m)[3]
Propulsion	4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators)[2][4] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries[3] 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears[2] two shafts[2] 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced[2] 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[2]
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced[3] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[3]
Range	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3]
Endurance	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3]
Test depth	250 ft (76 m)[3]
Complement	5 officers, 54 enlisted[3]
Armament	8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes  (four forward, four aft)  24 torpedoes[3] 1 × 3 in (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun[3] four machine guns

USS Saury (SS-189), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the saury, a long-beaked relative of the flying fish found in the temperate zones of the Atlantic.